Honda remaining yr introduced plans to release a pair of sports activities fashions powered through batteries, and certainly one of them has been showed as a sporty coupe that can most likely pass into manufacturing as a contemporary Prelude.

The affirmation got here on Wednesday with the divulge of the Prelude idea on the 2023 Tokyo auto display, a idea that Honda mentioned it used to be lately growing for manufacturing. Honda additionally made strikes to renew the Prelude trademark previous this yr.

In spite of being an idea, the Prelude on show in Tokyo seems able for manufacturing. And whilst it can be an EV, there is not anything to differentiate it from fashions powered through a fuel engine, apart from possibly a loss of exhaust pointers.

Introduced in Japan in 1978, the Prelude has historically been a sporty front-wheel-drive coupe that draped sleeker bodywork over dependable mechanical parts shared with extra mainstream fashions. Manufacturing ended after the 2002 style yr, bringing to a conclusion an excellent run that spanned 5 generations.

In a similar fashion, any trendy Prelude powered through batteries will most likely proportion its underpinnings with different Honda EVs within the works. The ones underpinnings most likely may not be the Ultium platform and battery era set Honda borrowed from Common Motors for the 2024 Prologue and 2024 Acura ZDX crossovers.

Honda is understood to be running on its personal EV platform for medium and large-size fashions, the primary of which is due in 2025 and prone to be a crossover. Honda may be running on a line of reasonably priced EVs in keeping with an extra platform being co-developed with GM as a part of a longer collaboration between the 2 automakers. The primary style in this collectively advanced platform is due in 2027.

Honda plans to have a minimum of 30 EVs to be had globally through 2030. This sort of would be the 2nd sports activities style introduced remaining yr, regarded as a new NSX supercar.